Cillian Murphy won the Best Actor Oscar for his performance of J. Robert Oppenheimer, while a Law & Order star was nominated ...

Here, 12 books to watch if Oppenheimer peaked your interest in the atomic bomb—including the 700-page biography that Nolan based his film on. Richard Rhodes's The Making of the Atomic Bomb ...

The idea for the surprising box office smash Oppenheimer first came to writer-director Christopher Nolan by way of Robert Pattinson, when Pattinson gifted him a book of J. Robert Oppenheimer ...

Oppenheimer is the central figure in the creation ... here’s a collection of books, films, and pieces of pop culture that can serve as a crash course into atomic peril.

Sherwin, a history professor and the author of one previous book, had agreed to write a full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer two decades earlier. Now he wondered if he would ever finish it.

But Kai thinks that there's great value in those who've watched Oppenheimer read his book, only because it offers insight into what happened before Christopher Nolan's story starts and what ...

When Bird read Nolan’s screenplay, he was “struck by how faithful it was to the book, capturing what was always most important to Sherwin: the paradoxes at the heart of Oppenheimer’s ...

Barton Bernstein, a Stanford University history professor emeritus, and Gregg Herken, author of the 2002 book “Brotherhood of the Bomb,” agree that Oppenheimer was a victim of McCarthy-era ...

Szasz’s 1984 book, “The Day the Sun Rose Twice.” An estimated 135,000 people were dead. Oppenheimer was relieved — and feeling himself. “I’ll never forget his walk,” Isidor Rabi ...

Adapting Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin’s book “American Prometheus,” I fully embraced the Prometheun theme, but ultimately chose to change the title to “Oppenheimer” to give a more direct ...

Only some of them get to move on. History books will tell you where Oppenheimer ends up, but the intrigue is in how he gets there. As played by Cillian Murphy, he starts off as a physics student ...

In India, it's been a hit too but some have protested against a scene depicting the scientist reading the Bhagavad Gita, one of Hinduism's holiest books, after sex. Oppenheimer learnt the ancient ...